{"id":987610,"date":"2026-01-26T08:34:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987610"},"modified":"2026-01-26T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:25:13","slug":"meta-sued-over-claims-that-whatsapp-messages-are-fully-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/meta-sued-over-claims-that-whatsapp-messages-are-fully-secure\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta sued over claims that WhatsApp messages are fully secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of plaintiffs has sued Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging the company made false claims about the privacy and security of WhatsApp chats, according to a Bloomberg report. The lawsuit was filed on Friday in the US District Court in San Francisco and targets Meta\u2019s claims that WhatsApp messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and cannot be accessed by the company. <\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption a core feature of its service. The company says the feature is turned on by default and tells users inside chats that \u201conly people in this chat can read, listen to, or share\u201d messages. Meta has said this encryption ensures messages are accessible only to the sender and recipient, not the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international group of plaintiffs has sued Meta Platforms, Inc., alleging the company made false claims about the privacy and security of WhatsApp chats, according to a Bloomberg report. The lawsuit was filed on Friday in the US District Court in San Francisco and targets Meta\u2019s claims that WhatsApp messages are protected by end-to-end encryption and cannot be accessed by the company. WhatsApp has made end-to-end encryption a core feature of its service. The company says the feature is turned on by default and tells users inside chats that \u201conly people in this chat can read, listen to, or share\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}